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Firstly, nanobiosensors were designed and synthesized by chemically bonding gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with aptamer bioreceptors highly selective for four widely used antibiotics in the field of veterinary medicine, namely, Kanamycin, Ampicillin, Oxytetracycline and Sulfadimethoxine. When molecules of the antibiotics are present in the milk sample, the interaction with the aptamers induces random AuNP aggregation. This phenomenon modifies the initial absorption spectrum of the milk sample without antibiotics, producing spectral features that indicate both the presence of antibiotics and, to some extent, its concentration. Secondly, we designed and constructed an electro-opto-mechanic device that performs automatic high-resolution spectral data acquisition in a wavelength range of 400 to 800 nm. Thirdly, the acquired spectra were processed by a machine-learning algorithm that is embedded into the acquisition hardware to determine the presence and concentration ranges of the antibiotics. Our approach outperformed state-of-the-art standardized techniques (based on the 520\/620 nm ratio) for antibiotic detection, both in speed and in sensitivity.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20164552","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,14]],"date-time":"2020-08-14T08:28:35Z","timestamp":1597393715000},"page":"4552","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":36,"title":["Improved Antibiotic Detection in Raw Milk Using Machine Learning Tools over the Absorption Spectra of a Problem-Specific Nanobiosensor"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5175-9100","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pablo","family":"Guti\u00e9rrez","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Ingenier\u00eda El\u00e9ctrica, Facultad de Ingenier\u00eda, Universidad de Concepci\u00f3n, Concepci\u00f3n 4030000, Chile"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8692-5749","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sebasti\u00e1n E.","family":"Godoy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Ingenier\u00eda El\u00e9ctrica, Facultad de Ingenier\u00eda, Universidad de Concepci\u00f3n, Concepci\u00f3n 4030000, Chile"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6193-9949","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sergio","family":"Torres","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Ingenier\u00eda El\u00e9ctrica, Facultad de Ingenier\u00eda, Universidad de Concepci\u00f3n, Concepci\u00f3n 4030000, Chile"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7305-1632","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Patricio","family":"Oyarz\u00fan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Facultad de Ingenier\u00eda y Tecnolog\u00eda, Universidad San Sebasti\u00e1n, Lientur 1457, Concepci\u00f3n 4080871, Chile"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6419-1211","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ignacio","family":"Sanhueza","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Ingenier\u00eda El\u00e9ctrica, Facultad de Ingenier\u00eda, Universidad de Concepci\u00f3n, Concepci\u00f3n 4030000, Chile"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2343-4712","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Victor","family":"D\u00edaz-Garc\u00eda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Facultad de Ingenier\u00eda y Tecnolog\u00eda, Universidad San Sebasti\u00e1n, Lientur 1457, Concepci\u00f3n 4080871, Chile"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2676-2866","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Braulio","family":"Contreras-Trigo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Facultad de Ingenier\u00eda y Tecnolog\u00eda, Universidad San Sebasti\u00e1n, Lientur 1457, Concepci\u00f3n 4080871, Chile"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7501-7785","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pablo","family":"Coelho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Facultad de Ingenier\u00eda y Tecnolog\u00eda, Universidad San Sebasti\u00e1n, Lientur 1457, Concepci\u00f3n 4080871, Chile"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"579","DOI":"10.1590\/S0124-00642009000400009","article-title":"Detecci\u00f3n de antibi\u00f3ticos en leches: Un problema de salud p\u00fablica","volume":"11","author":"Sotelo","year":"2009","journal-title":"Rev. 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